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Google Scholar is an essential and freely accessible specialized web search engine designed for the academic community, providing a simple way to broadly search across a vast array of scholarly literature. This platform indexes full text or metadata from numerous sources including peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, abstracts, and conference papers from academic publishers, professional societies, and university repositories globally.

Unlike a general web search, Google Scholar utilizes a sophisticated algorithm to rank results by weighing the full text, author, publication source, and the number of times and recency with which the work has been cited in other scholarly literature. It acts as a powerful tool for researchers and students, helping them find relevant, credible work and offering useful features like tracking citations and creating author profiles.